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Africa RISING Ethiopia Review and Planning meeting

2-3 December 2014
ILRI Addis Info Centre, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Objectives

  • Review project progress and results and share lessons learned.
  • Develop approaches and candidates for scaling with site level partners.

Agenda


Tuesday 2 December
  • 8.30 Registration
  • 9.00 Welcome and introduction (objectives, agenda, participants) + icebreaker - (SM and TG)
    • Process: quick introduction with speed dating and spectrogram ( only for new comers to introduce themselves for the whole group, 10 minute, TG)
    • Welcome (10 minutes, Boni)
  • 9:20 The wider context: Feed the Future (10 minutes, ?)
  • 9.30 Past year highlights. How we have implemented the work plans developed at last year's planning meeting. Plenary presentation (KM / PT)
    • Presentation (Kindu and Peter, 30 minutes) and Q & A (15 minutes)
  • 10.15 Break
  • 10.30 Review progress with and insights from the research that has been implemented. Bus stops (total = 9, 7 research themes and two cross cutting issues; TG)
    • there will be three station :Feed and forage + cross cutting issue (20 minutes with Q&A)
      • Crop residues (Melkamu,)
      • Irrigation fodder sheep fattening (Abera)
      • Gender (Annet)
      • Value chains (Eliude and Dirk)
      • Seed (Kalpana)
    • High value crops + systems + knowledge management (20 minutes with Q&A)
      • Multi-purpose trees (Aster)
      • Cropping system for nutrition (Tilahun)
      • Tree Lucerne (kindu)
      • Innovation platforms (Zelalem and Elias)
      • Enset (Zerihun yemataw)
    • Land and water + field crops selection (20 minutes with Q&A)The grouping will be done 1,2,3..5 numbering or partcipants choose the subject they want to hear?
      • Soil management (Rolf)
      • Land scape management (Leuelseged)
      • Yield gaps (Tilahun)
      • Participatory varietal selection (Frédéric, Steffen)
      • Step wise intensification (Abera)
    • The station holder will introduce their station
    • Depending on time ask participants to move to other bus stops (check with Peter tomorrow)?
    • Inform the station keepers during the break
  • 12.00 Emerging research issues. Open Space (TG).
    • Ask participants, If they have any topic they would like to address, ask them to write the topic on the card, choose station and invite people
    • 40 minutes to work in a group , 5 minutes for reporting
    • Just brief the principle to participants but not the details
  • 13.00 Lunch break
  • 14.00 Reflection of the overall implementation of the project over the last year. SWOT analysis (Strength, Weakness, Opportunities and threats; TG)
    • Group participants 1,2,3..5 numbering
    • Ask them to discuss in groups and write on the card (40 minutes )
    • Somewhere on the wall we will have matrix of the SWOT and we will ask participants to do clustering of the cards (20 minutes) (Ewen is willing to help)

  • 15.00 Reflection on issues arising at sites (accomplishments, challenges, successes, mapping key issues, actors, partners, scaling candidates etc). Group work / report back (by site).
    • group exercise per site/ site coordinators will lead this (40 minutes)
    • give instruction for reporting back not to take more than 5 minutes/ TG follow timing
    • ask them to prepare a summary for reporting back / maximum two sheet
    • Once they are done the reporting back, ask them to post it on the wall so that others will get a chance to read the details
  • 17.15 Close
  • 17.30 Reception

Wednesday 3 December
  • 8.45 Previous day recap. Presentation (KM / PT / TG)
    • Ask them to repeat what happened yesterday?
    • What was the striking point of yesterdays discussion ?
    • How do you see yesterday, what is your reflection?
    • What did you learn?
  • 9.00 General reflections on scaling approaches. Talk show (Panel - Tilahun Amede ICRISAT, Steffen Schulz CIP, Selamyihun Kidane ATA, Dirk Hoekstra ILRI, Interviewer - Peter Thorne ILRI).
    • Everything is set with Peter T
  • 9.45 Identification / formulation of potential scaling approaches. Group work (Groups each focus on one of seven higher level outcomes; productivity, market access and income, nutrition and health, gender inclusivity, environmental sustainability, adoptability; TG). (1 hour)
    • Who lead the session will be decided with Kindu and Peter tomorrow?
    • Ask participants to join the topic/outcome they choose,
    • Ask any volunteer to star
  • 12:00 Report back on scaling approaches. Plenary presentations (group rapporteurs)
    • Reporting back shouldn't take more than 5 minutes
    • After one or two reporting ask clarification question /feedback
    • At the end of all presentation ask Q & A / feed back of all the reporting
  • 13.00 Lunch break
  • 14.00 Clustering scaling approaches into more generic strategies for testing (identify key elements for different strategies). Plenary presentation and discussion (TG)
    • to be discussed on the second day?
  • 15.00 Identify potential components of a scaling plan (identification of candidate technologies for scaling (by theme, as per progress review on day 1; specify time of implementation, need a long list (c. 8) for implementation in early 2015). Group work (TG).
    • Ask group to document on power point or flip chart/ would be nice if they do it on both
    • Ask them to document the summary

  • 16.30 Report back on proposals for inclusion in scaling plans. Plenary presentations (group rapporteurs)
    • Ask one group to critique the other one after they listen the reporting
  • 17;00 close